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How much energy do you need to put into a human for it to calculate a 10 digit multiplication?


We supposedly consume about 100 watts at rest. Given that my flops are low (less than one!), I don't think I'm an efficient processor. At least for floating point operations. Producing paper and ink cartridges isn't free, either.

I might be competitive with an LLM + GPUs, but I imagine it'll demolish me on throughput.


I run inference pretty efficiently with those 100 watts.




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